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Rich Sharples

@softwhere.org

Product & Technology Executive | Commercial Open Source Pioneer | Technology Optimist | Cyclist | Life-long LFC supporter. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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I presume they are sending their best people ?

09.05.2025 15:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Denis Law obituary Manchester United footballer known as The King of Old Trafford and one of Scotland’s most outstanding players The footballer Denis Law, who has died aged 84, was a Manchester United legend and one of the finest attackers of his, or any other, era. With…

Denis Law obituary

19.01.2025 12:20 πŸ‘ 54 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Thank you for your support on the road, Reds πŸ‘

14.01.2025 22:12 πŸ‘ 361 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Selfies with the scorers 😁🀳

30.12.2024 14:43 πŸ‘ 201 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Simply Salah πŸŽ―πŸ‘‘

29.12.2024 20:20 πŸ‘ 411 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 4

The Murder Hornet threat is down, bird-flu in humans is up - balance has been restored

18.12.2024 18:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow - that must have been one tough MF - imagine the havoc a whole swarm could cause !

18.12.2024 18:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

your should try British "biscuits and gravy" in the Microwave - an unforgettable experience

15.12.2024 19:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They’re only for real connoisseurs if they’re from the β€œprise electrique” region

14.12.2024 13:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to Notes on the Practical Wisdom of AI Use

As everyone rushes to to embrace AI-augmentation, here are some guidelines from @emollick.bsky.social - essentially HITL is till essential for anything but but trivial low impact exercises.

12.12.2024 17:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Google Willow thing Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on β€œQuantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should…

I occasionally dip into the world of QC, but the Google Willow announcement got my attention. While progress is being made on decoherence and scale - we essentially have a super-computer who's results must be verified somehow. The problem is we don't have computers powerful enough.

11.12.2024 12:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if it's not on Strava then it didn't happen :)

09.12.2024 13:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm hoping to take it for a quick spin in the next few days. The link is a referral and will hopefully bump me up in the waitlist.

02.12.2024 22:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Index | Modern Planning for Product Management The powerful product planning and discovery tool, built for Product Managers on Linear. The best way to collect ideas, capture feedback, and build roadmaps.

I've been evaluation Product Management tools for the last few years and Index recently came up - native integration with Linear (new favorite issue tracker) and the clean simple look are appealing.

02.12.2024 22:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Best team in the world right now ?

01.12.2024 18:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They need some kind of plan

01.12.2024 18:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

don’t put ideas into his head !

01.12.2024 12:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Indeed - routinely pushing apps at scale is maybe only 20% about coding.

30.11.2024 16:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DORA Report 2024 – A Look at Throughput and Stability Google recently released the 2024 Accelerate State of DevOps (DORA) report, and there were some holy shit moments in those 120 pages. Or–to phrase it more professionally–this year’s report has some…

5/5 redmonk.com/rstephens/20...

30.11.2024 13:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

4/5 As they stand, I think coding assistants are great for reducing the learning curve (new language, framework, etc.) but they are less useful with design and structure of code.

30.11.2024 13:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

3/5 On a personal note - I’m only an occasional hacker but spent much of yesterday fixing and refactoring some Python for a data analysis project - I would be literally useless if it wasn’t for coding assistance. But I’m really not representative of the DORA report cohorts.

30.11.2024 13:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

2/5 The hypothesis is that coding is not a bottleneck to software delivery, so optimizing that has no gains and there may even be a drop in productivity due to more rework required.

30.11.2024 13:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

1/5 Google’s 2024 DORA State of DevOps was on my reading list this weekend but instead I decided to read Rachel Stephens’ writeup over on the RedMonk blog. The most interesting takeaway this year is that CoPilots have become established in the SDLC but we’re not seeing gains in productivity.

30.11.2024 13:44 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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First attempt at making (individual) Beef Wellington - they came out well and very tasty but the pastry to steak ratio was a little high - that wouldn’t be an issue with a full tenderloin but it was just the two of us for Thanksgiving.

29.11.2024 00:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn’t even realize Mbappe was on the pitch until 20 mins into the game - he barely touched the ball

27.11.2024 22:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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UP THE REDS βœŠπŸ”΄ #UCL

27.11.2024 21:54 πŸ‘ 4670 πŸ” 392 πŸ’¬ 111 πŸ“Œ 64
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How new digital workers will lead to an unlimited age Autonomous agents will redefine how humans work, live and connect

"... technology itself is neither good nor bad; what matters is how we use it."

- unfortunately there are a lot of bad people.

time.com/7178872/agen...

27.11.2024 16:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really like the idea of owning my own content / publishing - so reposting here for others interested who may have a lightly used RPI-5 lying around.

26.11.2024 01:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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7 Reasons Why Cyclists Bloody LOVE coffee What's a Saturday ride without a cuppa after?

I concur.

25.11.2024 12:51 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0